sohair al-bata’a
An Egyptian court has acquitted the first doctor ever brought to trial in Egypt on female genital mutilation charges that resulted in the death of 13-year-old Sohair al-Bata'a. The doctor and Sohair's father were both referred to trial after Sohair died in June 2013 at Raslan Halawa's private medical clinic while undergoing an FGM operation at her father's request. During the investigation into the death, the father retracted from his initial police report accusing Halawa, instead claiming his daughter was suffering…
